Christopher Morley

Parnassus on Wheels

The Haunted Bookshop

Das Haus der vergessenen Bücher

Prepare to enter a unique world full of enchantment, where time has come to a halt. It s the 1920s, and the United States is still replete with rural and idyllic landscapes where horse-drawn carriages intermingle with new automobiles. Roger Mifflin, a bookseller with a bookshop on wheels hopes to return to Brooklyn to write his memoirs, while the elderly Helen McGill, sick of her life s monotony, decides it s time to set out on an adventure."

SPA-LIBRERIA AMBULANTE

Kitty Foyle

History of an Autumn

Excerpt from Ginger Cubes Dear Russell: When I heard that you had been taken to the hospital with a badly dislocated sense of proportion and exhaustion of the adjective secretions, I was worried. The doctor said that you were suffering from a severe attack of deprecation and under-statement, and I feared that would mean you would be quite unfit to help me in the forthcoming campaign for Ginger Cubes. But I hear now that a few weeks of silence and relaxation will bring you round. I have ordered the "Police Gazette" and "The Nation" to be sent you. Each in its own way is highly entertaining. In our last conference, just before you were taken ill, you tried with your usual energy and bullheaded vitality to persuade me to say a word about the Ginger Cubes at the Paperhangers Convention. You made a great deal of the point that this would be a vast gathering, and that it would be excellent business for me to give them a "message." I ask you to meditate this thought: give me a small group of folks who are more or less interested in the same sort of thing that I am, and I will "talk my head off." But speaking to large, miscellaneous audiences, many of whom are only incubating there to pass away the time until the theaters open, is my idea of loss of compression. We have appropriated a fine promotion budget for the Ginger Cubes, but I any holding up any action until I can argue the situation with you. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Ginger Cubes

Modern Essays

Parnassus on Wheels, The Haunted Bookshop, Where the Blue Begins, Thunder on the Left

Four Favorite Books by Christopher Morley

Parnassus On Wheels & The Haunted Bookshop

Duet

This wonderful story by Christopher Morley is the humourous tale of an anthropomorphised dog called Mr. Gissing and his search for truth, god and the meaning of life. Christopher Morley was a well known American journalist, novelist and essayist. His works include The Eighth Sin (1912), Parnassus on Wheels (1917), Haunted Bookshop (1919), Pipefuls (1920) and many others. This book, Where the Blue Begins was originally published in 1922 and is here republished with a new biography of the author. A delicious satirical fantasy, in which humanity wears a dog collar.'Mr. Morley is a master of consequent inconsequence. His humour and irony are excellent, and his satire is only the more salient for the delicate and ingenuous fantasy in which it is set.' Manchester Guardian.

Where the Blue Begins

Eine Buchhandlung auf Reisen

by Christopher Morley, and merrily embellished by Walter Jack Duncan

Plum Pudding, of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned

Los entrañables Roger y Helen Mifflin han dejado de recorrer los campos y pueblos con su librería ambulante y se han instalado en pleno Brooklyn, como siempre soñara Roger. Ambos regentan La Librería Encantada, un "parnaso en casa" al que acuden, de un lado a otro de Nueva York, todo tipo de personajes singulares, incluidos jóvenes publicistas, farmacéuticos alemanes y guapísimas herederas; por no hablar de sus amigos libreros, que se reúnen allí cada poco para disfrutar la tarta de chocolate de Helen y los discursos incendiarios, y a la vez llenos de sensatez, del pequeño gran Roger. "Un homenaje a la especie en extinción de los libreros. Roger Mifflin, librero por vocación y obsesión, es como un médico que diagnostica las necesidades de lectura que tiene la gente y les receta el libro que más le conviene a su alma y quizá a su cuerpo." José Luis de Juan, El País

La librería encantada

The Pearl by John Steinbeck

Hide and Seek

A Number of Most Agreeable Inquirendoes Upon Life and Letters, Interspersed with Short Stories and Skits, the Whole Most Diverting to the Reader; [accompanied Also by Some Notes for Teachers Whereby the Booke May be Made Usefull in Class-room Or for Private Improvement

Shandygaff

Or, The Black Crook

Rudolph and Amina

Christopher Morley

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